DevOps Engineering on AWS

Course Objectives

This course is designed to teach you how to:
• Use the principal concepts and practices behind the DevOps methodology
• Design and implement an infrastructure on AWS that supports one or more DevOps development projects
• Use AWS CloudFormation and AWS OpsWorks to deploy the infrastructure necessary to create development, test, and production environments for a software development project
• Use AWS CodeCommit and understand the array of options for enabling a Continuous Integration environment on AWS
• Use AWS CodePipeline to design and implement a Continuous Integration and Delivery pipeline on AWS
• Implement several common Continuous Deployment use cases using AWS technologies, including blue/green deployment and A/B testing
• Distinguish between the array of application deployment technologies available on AWS (including AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Opsworks, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon EC2 Container Service, and Amazon EC2 Container Registry), and decide which technology best fits a given scenario
• Fine tune the applications you deliver on AWS for high performance and use AWS tools and technologies to monitor your application and environment for potential issues

Course content

Associated Certifications & Exam

On successful completion of this course students will receive a Torque IT attendance certificate.

The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional exam validates technical expertise in provisioning, operating, and managing distributed application systems on the AWS platform. Exam concepts you should understand for this exam include the ability to:

• Implement and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS
• Understand, implement, and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation
• Define and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging systems on AWS
• Implement systems that are highly available, scalable, and self-healing on the AWS platform
• Design, manage, and maintain tools to automate operational processes

Candidate Overview Eligible candidates for this exam have:

• Achieved AWS Certified Developer – Associate or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
• Two or more years’ experience provisioning, operating, and managing AWS environments
• Experience developing code in at least one high-level programming language
• Experience in automation and testing via scripting/programming
• Understanding of agile and other development processes and methodologies

Exam Overview

• Required Prerequisite: status as AWS Certified Developer – Associate or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
• Multiple choice and multiple answer questions
• 170 minutes to complete the exam
• Exam available in English